Review: Since slipping out in 2013 in frustratingly limited quantities, Cavern of Anti-Matter's epic debut album, Blood Drums, has become something of a sought-after item. Those lucky few who managed to secure a copy back then - or pay three-figures for a second-hand one online - will tell anyone willing to listen that it is a modern-day krautrock classic. Happily, Stereolab has persuaded the German trio to agree to a re-issue, now expanded to three slabs of wax to allow for a louder pressing. It's certainly an impressive set, offering up tracks that combine a krautrock sensibility with elements of lo-fi indie-rock, and leftfield electronica experimentation. There's not that many copies of the reissue knocking around, either, so you're advised to move quick before they're all gone.

Review: For a generation who grew up in the '90s, the work of Tim Gane in Stereolab was often as much of an introduction to krautrock as that sound's actual progenitors. Yet this was only one string to his bow, with the band also traversing genre as effortlessly with abstract electronica as with tropicalia or French chanson. Gane now dwells in Berlin, and Cavern Of Anti-Matter marks his first bona side band project since Stereolab's breakup, enlisting the help of guest luminaries like Sonic Boom and Deerhunter's Bradford Cox for a vivid selection of delirious forays into the unknown that touch on sci-fi, techno and retro electronic tropes yet can't help but bear all the hallmarks of Gane's finest and most restless work.

Review: Cavern Of Anti Matter, the creation of Stereolab co-founder Tim Gane, return with third full-length Hormone Lemonade. Recorded straight to tape over three hour-long sessions, there's a palpable immediacy and urgency driven by motorik rhythms and broad modular synthesis. Sixteen-minute long opening track 'Malfunction' undulates through passages of sci-fi krautrock and nu-disco with dexterity. There seems to be a kind of theme & variation aspect to the album, with elements echoing throughout, such as the rising chord patterns on the pseudo-Drexciyan tech of 'Feed Me Magnetic Rain'. Stereolab comparisons are at moments difficult not to make, especially on tracks like 'Phase Modulation Shuffle' and 'Outerzone Jazs', but the sonics of 'Hormone Lemonade' are unique enough to distance Gane's new project and place it in a category of its own.

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